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Legend
- 2 August 2004
Oh how the mighty have fallen....
I wanna dedicate this thread to footballers who have really fallen from grace and not because of old age! We often celebrate or at least speculate about how amazing, talented youngsters can become in a few years but rarely consider the opposite which also happens quite often. We just forget about them after awhile... I'm talking about when certain talented players dazzle us with incredible skills and great performances at a relatively young age, only for us to expect them to get even better or at least maintain that ability for years to come and then they go ahead and do the opposite! Fast forward a few years to something like now and they've unexpectedly fallen off the map and are no longer half the players they used to be and with no hype or expectation around them anymore. Sad but very true for many!
So here are 2 examples to start off. Go back about 4 years and two of the hottest attacking (but not forward) players in the world were none other than 1 of the Brazilian superstars of CSKA Moscow, the left-footed Daniel Carvalho who helped them to that UEFA cup title and Heerenveen's Dutch/Turkish superstar and FK champ, Ugur Yildirim! Remember him?! (I randomly remembered him today and he's the real inspiration behind this thread!
)
Guess where he is now and what he's been up to in recent times?!
At a particular time, both were doing so well and flying high! Yildirim was being courted by both national teams and bigger clubs tho many could already see he's over-rated and just being hyped a lot at that time I remember. And I seem to recall after thinking about it for awhile, he finally decided to play for Holland and actually got 1 or 2 caps, I think. His Freekicks were fantastic and he seemed so consistent with them! Him and Juninho were probably the world's best at that point.
Dani Carvalho is of course much better known and was once striking fear in even the best defenders in Europe when they had to play CSKA! He got a deserved call up at one point and even scored on his debut I seem to recall.
Now at only 27 still though, these two are a SHADOW of the players they once were! And have more than likely already represented their country for the last time as well as played the best football of their career. And that's what the theme of this thread will be. Players who at one point (even if just for a brief period of time like Yildirim), shined brightly but have really fallen from grace and whose abilities are now sadly only a FRACTION of what they once were.
So here are just 2 but certainly not the only ones in the huge football world, let's get the ball rolling and identify these failures/disappointments.
Whatever happened to......
I wanna dedicate this thread to footballers who have really fallen from grace and not because of old age! We often celebrate or at least speculate about how amazing, talented youngsters can become in a few years but rarely consider the opposite which also happens quite often. We just forget about them after awhile... I'm talking about when certain talented players dazzle us with incredible skills and great performances at a relatively young age, only for us to expect them to get even better or at least maintain that ability for years to come and then they go ahead and do the opposite! Fast forward a few years to something like now and they've unexpectedly fallen off the map and are no longer half the players they used to be and with no hype or expectation around them anymore. Sad but very true for many!
So here are 2 examples to start off. Go back about 4 years and two of the hottest attacking (but not forward) players in the world were none other than 1 of the Brazilian superstars of CSKA Moscow, the left-footed Daniel Carvalho who helped them to that UEFA cup title and Heerenveen's Dutch/Turkish superstar and FK champ, Ugur Yildirim! Remember him?! (I randomly remembered him today and he's the real inspiration behind this thread!
)
Guess where he is now and what he's been up to in recent times?!
At a particular time, both were doing so well and flying high! Yildirim was being courted by both national teams and bigger clubs tho many could already see he's over-rated and just being hyped a lot at that time I remember. And I seem to recall after thinking about it for awhile, he finally decided to play for Holland and actually got 1 or 2 caps, I think. His Freekicks were fantastic and he seemed so consistent with them! Him and Juninho were probably the world's best at that point.
Dani Carvalho is of course much better known and was once striking fear in even the best defenders in Europe when they had to play CSKA! He got a deserved call up at one point and even scored on his debut I seem to recall.
Now at only 27 still though, these two are a SHADOW of the players they once were! And have more than likely already represented their country for the last time as well as played the best football of their career. And that's what the theme of this thread will be. Players who at one point (even if just for a brief period of time like Yildirim), shined brightly but have really fallen from grace and whose abilities are now sadly only a FRACTION of what they once were.
So here are just 2 but certainly not the only ones in the huge football world, let's get the ball rolling and identify these failures/disappointments.
Whatever happened to......
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